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...testimony, along with other depositions obtained at hearings held today in ten other cities, will be presented to the House Subcommittee on Elections and Privileges, which will recommend whether the Mississippi Congressional elections were valid. The MFDP claims the election was illegal because of voter discrimination...
...attempted to register to vote in Marshall County. "I told them [Negroes] they could go over and register to vote anytime ...They don't need any demonstrations about it," Cooperwood stated. Cooperwood and Clayton gave their testimony at a hearing called by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The MFDP is contesting the seating of the state's five congressmen. The Party subpoenaed the two officials under a several statute which allows election protestants a forty-day period to gather evidence for their challenge...
...least half an hour of today's hearing consisted of debate over the voter registration records. The two MFDP attorneys insisted that the federal statute entitled them to subpoena and examine the records. Clayton's three attorneys maintained that they need not produce the records, and that they would not produce them simply "to save time...
During the two-hour lunchbreak, the MFDP attorneys drove to the registrar's office. They arrived at 11:15 a.m., only to find that Mr. Clayton had closed his office for the day and would admit...
...original resolution, initiated by Jerry Umanski '67, recognized the MFDP as "Mississippi's legal party organization." It was attacked on the grounds that participation in an intraparty feud would only "embarrass the state and national parties...